GRE Word List

PANACEA

a remedy for all ills or difficulties : cure-all

The meaning of the word panacea is a remedy for all ills or difficulties : cure-all.

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sagaa prose narrative recorded in Iceland in the 12th and 13th centuries of historic or legendary figures and events of the heroic age of Norway and Iceland
tranquillitythe quality or state of being tranquil
inhibitto prohibit from doing something
incinerateto cause to burn to ashes
levitateto rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation
equablemarked by lack of variation or change : uniform
usurythe lending of money with an interest charge for its use
stampto pound or crush with a pestle or a heavy instrument
gyroscopea wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin
confluencea coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point